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Air Algerie Flight Likely Crashed in Mali

7/24/2014 12:57PM

An Air Algerie jetliner with 116 people on board traveling from Burkina Faso to Algeria has likely crashed in Tilemsi, Mali, according to airline officials. WSJ's Stacy Meichtry reports on Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero. Photo: Getty

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... I ... I AOL jury jetliner one hundred and sixteen people on board traveling from Burkina Faso to Algeria ... crashes in Mali ... well I'm tiny Rivera oh and this is lunch break ... their elderly confirms flight five oh one seven lost contact after takeoff and crashed into Linzie Molly ... with more D tells on this developing story we're joined now by Stacy Meichtry from our parents that the euro ... Stacey thank so much for being with us what officials are set up the so far ... well they're saying that ... I'm ... you know that at this point saying as have been ... hours since the ... the flight should override that its destination in Algiers ... it's looking like ... it probably crashed ... somewhere along the southern rim of the Sahara desert ... they haven't quite managed to locate ... the the wreckage itself ALM so they're still exercising caution ... Mr. exactly what happened here ... I was this plane flying over a conflict is known about potentially be reason ... yet for the past year so I you know friends has been engaged in a conflict with ... his long history artists ... insurgents ... in the in in the northern section of of Molly ... and these are groups basically um you know that they became very close ... to taking over the country ... but you're in a half ago ... and found finance master sends in troops in in in in a scattered ... these insurgents from the now start and make a comeback ... they are heavily armed obviously ... aam although French officials do war and that I mean did did do ... the same for now that it doesn't look like these groups ... have the kind of firepower ... to bring down um you know of commercial jetliner ... at cruising altitude the surface-to-air missiles that they know of ... well its costs for their surface-to-air missile ... the question is whether they have missiles that can reach you know the necessary altitude of thirty thousand feet ... I am for the time being but that this movie tickets ... right so what sets of rally officials taking at this point ... I'm sucking it into question what steps are Mally official taking at this point ... well ... instead of Molly what they've done ... obviously that the Moline government is stretched pretty thin ... on so the French Air Force is activated ... I you know there are already ... thousands of French troops on the ground for the military mission ... so that was they've done is they've been a scramble ... jets ... to seek to to ... to conduct a search mission for the for the wreckage site ... and we know anything about the passengers and crew on board ... yes it looks like ... I'm you know nearly half of the passengers ... were French nationals ... there are probably on their way of back home to France no kidding connecting flights in Algiers ... so you know this is much of ... a national tragedy ... for France and as it is for Burkina Faso ... and it already was the Crows Spanish as my understanding ... yet because it was um it was of a plane ... an MD eighty three ... that was ... owned by a Spanish company ... of that was being operated by ...